Issue Thirteen • Issue Thirteen Book Reviews • Reviews
May 24, 2022
By Chloe Britton Written by Professors Katy Barnett and Jeremy Gans from the law school of the University of Melbourne, Guilty Pigs is a...
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By Matthew Goodall Craig Sherborne is a poet, playwright, and novelist. His debut memoir Hoi Polloi was shortlisted for both the Queensland...
Issue Twelve • Issue Twelve Book Reviews • Reviews
November 25, 2021
by Ferris Knight ‘The fact that gender-neutral and nonbinary pronouns are invented over and over again, often by people completely...
by Nicolas Brasch Eugen Bacon is a critical voice in Australian literature, one that probes and prods, questions and enlightens. She is an...
Issue Eleven • Issue Eleven Reviews • Reviews
June 22, 2021
by Angela Wauchop ‘Behind the ragged grey people and their own shabby infantry officers— … the houses are little more than...
by Angela Wauchop ‘But there is a lot Keledi does not know. You haven’t told her about the big plane that took Baba up in the...
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop ‘Was it the malevolence of bitch girls and the opulence ranking of their homes? The spite of...
June 21, 2021
by Vincent Kakkos Ein Stein surprised the absolute shit out of me. As someone who hadn’t read a novel to completion in almost a...
Issue Ten • Issue Ten Book Reviews • Reviews
November 23, 2020
Reviewed by Michelle Freckleton Sue Smethurst is an award-winning writer/ journalist, who has worked in the media industry for over twenty...
Review by Angela Wauchop “Even as Mary said it, guilt scalded her insides knowing that Maw had nearly died of the bleeding after the last...
Review by Angela Wauchop “… ‘Our daughters are still children when they marry. Have you ever considered that?’ Fufidius gaped...
Issue Eight • Issue Eight Reviews • Reviews
December 1, 2019
Reviewed by Dr Wendy J. Dunn. “… She went to bed and dreamed she was lying in a garden. It was night time, the moon a glowing...
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “‘That is not true. I care about you, Céline. I care about the fact that my wife prostitutes herself for...
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “… Vrezh stomped the blood-red flags with enthusiasm … The older boys poured kerosene on the heap...
Issue Six • Issue Six Book Reviews • Reviews
December 15, 2018
by Savannah White “…Swayed by her passion, the Creator granted her wish. The star was born in human form and lived a human life. All...
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “For years she had imagined these plants belonged to the animal kingdom: hippopotamus; rhinoceros; agapanthus....
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “The murky water stretched out between her and the shore, the gap becoming further than she could leap. The...
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop. “But tonight the air was precarious. All sandstone shadow, smudgy. She thought that time was like this too, a...
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “It felt like slipping through a hidden side-door, stepping slightly outside the flow of things and into a...
Issue Five • Issue Five Book Reviews • Reviews
June 8, 2018
Reviewed by Wendy J. Dunn Each lace shawl begins and ends the same way – with a circle. Everything is connected with a thread as fine...
Review by Jayme Constandino At the crux of it, The Tides Between is a story about self discovery. The narrative follows young girl Bridie...
Reviewed by Skye Jenner. This book isn’t the kind that I normally read. That’s not to say that I didn’t thoroughly enjoy it. But it...
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “… and I was lifted reluctantly into the boat as it ploughed into the sea. On the beach the men I knew from...
Review by Madeleine Reid Aesop the Fox is Suniti Namjoshi’s first novel in six years, and those familiar with her fiction works will be...
Reviewed by Tamara Lowe The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, written by Shokoofeh Azar who now calls Australia home,...
Issue Three • Reviews
June 15, 2017
Review by Joe Bosa “There is a moment, just before the dreamer stirs, when the mysteries of the world offer up their meanings. There is...
Review by Jessica Forth It is not often that a book opens is narrative with the call to action on it’s first page. It is also unusual...
Issue Two • Reviews
November 21, 2016
Review by Sarah Giles “All of us must walk our own roads, but ‘tis wrong to prevent women from walking to many roads just because...
September 5, 2016
Reviewed by Professor Josie Arnold I read this as a biography of the William, Anne and Hanoverian years in England that saw the...
Review by Tina Tsironis Throw a number of interconnected characters together, add a dash of mental complexity to each, sprinkle with a...
